Tazewell-Sangamon-Greene County IL Archives Obituaries.....Burton, John Burton January 30, 1839
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Betty A. Burton beb1505@comcast.net February 15, 2016, 10:10 am

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John Burton, born in Mecklenburg Aounty, VA in 1761. He died 1839 and is buried 
in McDivitt Cemetery, Chatham Township, Sangamon County, Illinois. He served as 
a private with the VA Continentals. He enlisted for three months in Catp. Asa 
Oliver's Company in 1780 and also in Col Charles Fleming's Regiment and then 
again in 1781 in Capt. Stephen A. Berry's Company of VA troops. He served at 
the siege of Yorktown. He was on the pension roll for Sangamon Co, on 3 may 
1834, age 72. His name is on the bronze plazque on the south mall of the Old 
State Capitol. See 1876 Early Setttlers of Sangamon Co, page 163, for a 
possible family connection. John married to Clary Vaughan 20 Feb 1787 in 
Mecklenburg Co, VA.

Additional Comments:
this man was my husbands Great great grandfather. The Cemetery where he is 
buried has been abandioned. It is grown over and many of the stones under the 
ground. We could NOT find any stone for him. We have been trying to get a 
special plaque for him to be placed in Butler National Cemetery, Springfield, 
IL. That is where we will be inturned, as my husband Buell Burton was in the 
2nd. world war in the navy. 

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